An attempt to heal & transmute whatever energies it is in my power to transform through creativity.
Poetry
Freedom of Movement
29th March 2018 at Horse Play, The Black Dove, Brighton Freedom of Movement is a performance in poetry that is both a celebration of free movement and a protest against the idea that it can be brought to an end. 29th March 2018 marks the midpoint exactly one year between the triggering of Article 50 … Continue reading Freedom of Movement
Toward Passion According – Launch
Book launch of Jazmine Linklater's Toward Passion According, published by Zarf, at the Peckham Pelican, Sunday 18th February 2018, 7pm.
Three Poems for the Winter Solstice
'Winter', Vahni Capildeo: https://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/?i=11&f=157#157 'Of Mutability', Maggie O'Sullivan: https://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/?i=66&f=780#780 'Red Coil', Cecilia Vicuña: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiWpb3J1c8c&app=desktop
Sound Recording of Guided Meditation
Here's a sound recording of my poem Guided Meditation: for Maggie O'Sullivan. You can read the poem on Adjacent Pineapple here. And find out more about the poem here.
Guided Meditation for Maggie O’Sullivan – poem published
I've recently had a new poem published in Adjacent Pineapple, Issue Two. It's a great looking issue with some fine poets represented, including Paul Hawkins, Jazzmine Linklater, Joey Frances, Robert Sheppard and Paula Claire. My thanks to Colin Herd for inclusion in the issue. You can read Guided Meditation: for Maggie O'Sullivan here. I'm grateful to … Continue reading Guided Meditation for Maggie O’Sullivan – poem published
Echoes of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Writing as re-writing, as copying. Pause, hesitation, stutter.
The Ghostword Sembles Itself
On 22nd June 1976, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sat by the tomb of Tristan Tzara in Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, listening to the rain. This gesture instigates a cut-up practice to disassemble and reassemble some of Cha's words, creating the opportunity to liberate some of her vocabulary from the poetic structures she creates in her writing … Continue reading The Ghostword Sembles Itself
imagine you’re singing
[listen here > / read here >>] imagine you’re singing several north seas worth of voice light up your spine >> positive energy >> accessible only by /fracking/ shine[s] through your feet standing on the shoulders of frackfield workers’ lungs quiet breath invite these asthmas, silicosis /notice your chest/ inhale & exhale … Continue reading imagine you’re singing
Hákarl 24
Twenty-four hours in a bar with some of the finest musicians and performers I know (and I didn't even know all of them until we rocked up to start playing...)
Sally-Shakti Willow 